Elsevier, a global leader in research publishing and information analytics, has announced the launch of Elderly Care China, an online platform that delivers nursing education to address the growing demand for quality geriatric care management services in China.
Currently, China has more than 40 million disabled and semi-disabled elderly people and falls short of the 1:4 nursing staff to elderly ratio recommended by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. With only an estimated 4.45 million number of nursing care professionals available by the end of 2019, at least an additional 10 million geriatric care nurses are needed.
To bridge this gap, Elsevier developed the Elderly Care China digital solution to equip China’s nursing professionals with quality, comprehensive and practical skills training in an interactive format to meet the requirement and standards of China’s elderly care management.
Incorporating authoritative, quality and comprehensive geriatric nursing care literature from Elsevier's reference book, ‘Geriatric Nursing’, Elderly Care China has undergone stringent review by a panel of Chinese experts to deliver an enriched and customised syllabus that is highly relevant, current and aligned to the context, guidelines and practices of China’s elderly care management.
Elsevier will initially introduce an online version of Elderly Care China with plans to extend the solution across a mobile platform and other point terminals.
At launch, the syllabus will focus on nursing education content centered on geriatric management around daily care, preventive care, mental health issues and neurological diseases. This will gradually expand to include syllabus related to other geriatric-specific conditions. In addition, the content will be regularly refreshed with information arising from the latest regulatory and industry framework to help China’s geriatric care professionals keep current and updated with the latest developments.
In 2019, Elderly Care China was conceived as a key component of the three-year ‘Sino-German Eldercare Project’ in a collaboration involving Elsevier, FuU-Sachsen gGmbH, and Deutsch-Chinesische Sozialwerk e.V., Stuttgart along with eight Chinese colleges and universities. The launch of Elderly Care China today is a milestone progress signalling that the cooperation between China and Germany has entered a new phase in the strategic academic-industry collaboration on geriatric care management in China.
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